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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Need the feature to Impersonate User in Cognos to replicate user specific issues

Need the option to impersonate user in cognos. We need this feature to replicate user specific issues by logging in as user and quickly identifying and tracking the issues
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Log Viewer - bring it back!

As many were use to using in prior versions of Cognos -- LogViewer was a great program. Unfortunately, somewhere along the lines some file was updated and it got hosed in C11 -- and now is not even shipped with the product. Customers/Clients/Admin...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Creation of report views only after interactive run of report

In Cognos Analytics, Report Views can only be created from the Cognos Viewer. Hence, you have to run an interactive report first, in order to create a Report View. This is generally a lot more time consuming then in Cognos 10 and hence not a good ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of layout elements: Check if referenced query exist and ask if they should be reused

When copying lists (also crosstabs, charts, etc.) the referenced query is always created as well. If the name already exists in the target report, a number (1, 2, 3, etc.) is appended. It should be checked if the query with the corresponding name ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add Scope as filter in the GUI on Past Activities

We no longer allow our end users monitor their schedules from the administration console. Instead, they now use the option from the GUI accessible from either "My schedules and subscriptions" or "Manage-Activities". In both latter cases, they have...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Not under consideration

Import query subjects with prompts

We want to request query subjects from Cognos Analytics in Jupyter notebooks and use them as a data basis for analyses and ML methods. Currently, all query subjects that expect user input (prompts/filter) are excluded. This currently leads to cons...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide dashboard toolbar (or components of dashboard toolbar) for a dashboard or role.

When embedding dashboards into our 3rd party tool we would like the ability to disable or hide components of the dashboard toolbar to suit our needs and have a more seamless integration with our core product. In some circumstances we want to limit...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

AI Insights and Narrative Insights should be available in custom visualizations as well as the prepackaged IBM visualizations.

Currently, the icons show in the upper right when a custom visualization is used in a dashboard, and when icon is clicked the Insight panel displays but no insights are offered. It simply reads, 'there are no insights for this object'. This functi...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Integration of a upload file scanning feature in Cognos

Currently, when users upload files into Cognos, there is no mechanism in place to scan these files for potential threats or issues. This lack of a scanning feature could potentially expose the system and its users to security risks.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Full interactivity should be set to 'No' for reports copied from older versions

The property ‘Run with full interactivity’ should be set to 'No', by default, for reports which are copied (using copy-to-clipboard), from reports originally built in older versions of Cognos. Currently in C11, reports 'migrated' (export/import) f...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration